>As far as I know, Bob Easton was credited with the off-left technique >-- here's what happened to him: > >http://www.access-matters.com/2008/04/19/off-left-banned-by-google/ > >It's something to consider.
What? Not letting your site get hacked? Tedd, I think you've missed the punchline of Bob's post and would speculate that you were mislead by the url his cms created which dispenses the question mark in Bob's actual title for the post. The upshot is we don't really know how, why and when Google (and other search engine providers) discriminate against any particular form of hiding text with CSS. [0] What we do know for sure though is that this issue has very little to do with this list's stated purpose. Thread closed please people. Alex css-d moderator [0] Hiding offscreen is probably fairly safe since so many accessibility types have advocated it and so many sites actually do use it legitimately. Even if Google did ban its use outright, spammers could just as trivially place the stuff they want to hide beneath another element with a higher z-order that would obscure what was beneath it. Maybe they already do. Short of Google essentially rendering each and every page and developing an articially intelligent agent that would compare what was hidden and what was shown [1], this is an area that will, for the foreseeable future, require human judgement and intervention - which is not to say Google might not disagree with what you over what is legitimate hiding or not. The tags and css you use are going to come way down the list of things in the big picture when compared to the actual content. If you still feel you need to worry about such things, please take it to a more general web dev discussion list, or even better, one dedicated to SEO. [1] Beyond checking that the color of text is not set to the same as the background... ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
